There is nothing", answered he, "which requires more immediate notice than impertinence, for it ever encroaches when it is tolerated.
Fanny BurneyAbout author
- Author's profession: Novelist
- Nationality: english
- Born: June 13, 1752
- Died: January 6, 1840
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